Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students who are fluent in a modern foreign language as well as English are urged by Sheldon Wars '88, Social Service Chairman, to volunteer their services in teaching English to foreigners in the city...
...best at the beginning of "The Good Society," where he attacks the totalitarian states as a throwback to the coercion of the Ancion Regime. Mr. Lippman compares the limited abilities of man with the complexities of modern society and asks how the planners can possibly be expected to have a sufficient grasp of the situation to plan wisely. . "The whole social process is beyond any man's comprehension . . . Men cannot direct the social process. They can only intervene here and there...
...according to the push and pull of organized interests. Is this conceivable in a democracy?" This conception of democracy's limitations is quite different from that of the founding father who said: "The regulation of these various and interfering interests (landed, mercantile, monied, etc.) forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of the government...
Engineers of today must administer the world's natural resources in the best interests of modern society, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, stated at the Faculty Club last night...
...Ancient and Modern Palestine" will be the subject of a lecture by Khalil Totah, Principal of the Friend's School at Ramallah, Palestine, given at the Semitic Museum, Divinity Avenue, at 4 o'clock...